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Joining us now is my colleague and host of the beat, ar melber, who in addition to his copious and important hostin duties, has also written a forward on the coup conspiracy for the harvard collin generous sixth report. we re also happy to have wit us the great barbara quaid former u.s. attorney our, barb, thanks for joinin me, and all of us on this nigh when we see how the committe wraps it up with the bow ari, i think it is indicativ of the way in which this investigation has captured the public s imagination the fact that you are coauthor, a named author on copy of the report that s bein put out by her pro collins for public consumption let s do a little before, you, know how it started, how it going on the january 6th committee, which is, you know, how did this work teache expected shoveled was possible it s a quick question because that s how we re all ....
This, and you say, okay. and i ll tell you, i don t tel you there s heroin inside. you know who gets in trouble for, that if the system works? i do, not to and in fairness to some of these trump fans, if they di not trespass the capitol o storm, it and they wer deceived in holding the cu they may not be the easies people to charge but there is now in this repor tonight overwhelming evidenc that eastman, giuliani, bori epstein is also on the hoo there, that they were actively misleading people exactly what barbara said, and so i do thin it s an open question why th doj, which is the ultimate backstop for everythin regarding what is submitted to congress and elected electoral fraud, hasn t acted on this. this, and i mention this and m coverage earlier today, alex, think this tees up, even i there is a week of holiday break, a tough, real, heated january for the special counse and merrick garland. can you see this stuff are you gonna act on it? and if not, why? well, and, ari, you jus ....
Or completed that was california congresswoman judy chu, she an rest of the house ways and means committee wrote th blockbuster news that despit former president trump being the first president sinc richard nixon to not publicl release his tax returns, despite the fact that the ir had audited president obama an president biden every year the were in office, despite th fact that president trump s ta returns were filled with red flags, somehow, despite all of that, the irs did not perfor the and utterly annual presidential audits that has been required performed sinc the year 1977. somehow, the irs did not loo at trump s taxes until democrats, like judy chu, at the house ways and means committee started asking question joining us now is the woma herself, californi congresswoman, judy chu, membe of the house ways and mean committee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. i just want to start with ho ....
Refused to rule out th possibility that she might run for president in 2024. so, it did beg the question to a lot of people, what are he motives? and we, servicing our politica omissions, or is she surfacing us my own view, i think the facts really bear this out, what cheney did in service to the committee came in a very significant political cost, it is hard for me to imagine just what a political pathway would be for her given all that transpired but yes, there was real concer at the time. i do think that, you know, i don t kinzinger is quoted in the story of - i ve had some frustrations wit us jamie but i also think that the committee would have fel without her that she for mor than anyone else is responsibl for the committee success .. i love this reporting robert i love that bar, little detail about mask low soundly offerin people chocolates and then listening to what was going on ....
Be legal criminal ramification for more people involved i this plot? members of the proud boys ar on trial right now for seditious conspiracy members of another far-right paramilitary, the oath keepers have already been convicted of that charge. a special grand jury in fulton county, in georgia, is expecte to issue its final repor within weeks, and which poin the district attorney ther will decide whether to see indictments of anyone, up to and including donald trump, fo interfering with the 202 election in the state of georgia. but what about all the other states in which trump and hi allies attempted to pull off the very same scheme the same scheme they tried i georgia. well, and the other d eight or attorneys general in those states, are they going t pursue investigations? and of course the bigges question of them all, will the united states department o justice act on the crimina referrals from the january 6th committee, and prosecute the 45th president of the united states, donald ....